Scott Raney Contributor Since joining Redpoint in 2000 Scott Raney has focused on cloud investments; his past portfolio includes Twilio, Heroku, and Adap.tv and recent investments in Stripe, Expensify, and Cyanogen. More posts by this contributor Is AWS The Most Important Enterprise Company? After last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, we posed the question, “Is Amazon […]
Black Duck Software | Open Source Security & Management
Organizations worldwide use Black Duck Software’s solutions to ensure open source security and license compliance in their applications and containers.
Neha Narkhede talks about the experience at LinkedIn moving from batch-oriented ETL to real-time streams using Apache Kafka and how the design and implementation of Kafka was driven by this goal of acting as a real-time platform for event data. She covers some of the challenges of scaling Kafka to hundreds of billions of events per day at Linkedin, supporting thousands of engineers, etc.
Build your own personal cloud in minutes with this 4TB device – BGR
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Everyone’s talking about “the cloud” these days, and cloud sync and storage solutions are pretty awesome. Services like Dropbox and iCloud make your life so much easier, but how secure are they? Do you …
T-Mobile announces Digits: one phone number for all your devices - The Verge
T-Mobile just revealed its answer to AT&T’s NumberSync technology, which lets customers use one phone number across all their connected devices. T-Mobile’s version is called Digits and it will...
Microsoft unveils its hardware plans to take on Amazon's Echo with Windows 10 PCs - The Verge
Microsoft is rumored to be preparing a HomeHub feature for Windows 10 to better compete with devices like Google’s Home and Amazon’s Echo. While that feature isn’t expected to debut until later...
Bora Barroso created a compilation of imagery from postapocalyptic movies, creating the ultimate depressing-yet-curiously-liberating vision of human doom. A Tribute to the Post-Apocalyptic Cinema. …
Excellent, deep series on Uber's Ponzi-scheme economics / Boing Boing
For the past week, Naked Capitalism has run a series of articles by transportation industry expert Hubert Horan on the economic shenanigans of Uber, which cooks the numbers it shows investors, driv…
Longtime AVC community member Jeremy Epstein (who launched the first AVC Meetup in the summer of 2008) has been working on bringing marketing to the blockchain sector. He asked thirty-three leaders of the blockchain sector to write short one or two page descriptions of why blockchains are important. They are compiled in a free ebook […]
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) Introduction, Part 1
This intro to ANNs will look at how we can train an algorithm to recognize images of handwritten digits. We will be using the images from the famous MNIST (Mixed National Institute of Standards and Technology) database.
GitHub - asobti/kube-monkey: An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters
An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters - GitHub - asobti/kube-monkey: An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters